Paper made from trees in well-managed forests is a sustainable resource. Whether or not the paper is FSC certified, if it is from North America the forests are governed to a degree and are not like forests of countries in Asia and the southern hemisphere.
There are other green options, such as sustainable papers made from banana leaves, mulberry fiber, wild grasses, abaca and hyacinths. Non-wood papers can be more expensive but they are very eco-friendly. Their virgin materials are abundant, renewable, and sometimes even pesky plant species.
For example, our company produces a paper from abundant, fast-growing and invasive tall wild Cogon grass weeds. The grass is not wood-based, so it cannot be CoC certified at all. Expand your green view to include non-wood papers as well as tree-based papers. Indeed, Tree-Free papers do not contain any wood or plant products, but are not necessarily green.
I got to know about this term when I saw it on a denim product banner. I thought it would help you too if you are trying to find the meaning and use of PCW cotton. Tags Sustainability Textile Recycling. Facebook Twitter. We thought we might as well group all of our products that contain any recycled content all together. Does it matter which they used?
Waste , either a material or a product that can be divided into two categories:. Pre-consumer waste is a material that was discarded before it was ready for consumer use. For more information about paper, you can download the Paper Facts document from which the image above was obtained.
Paper towels, napkins, toilet paper, note pads, envelopes, and almost any paper product you might need can all now be found with recycled content. This is in contrast to virgin paper that is made exclusively from trees and has no recycled content. The primary environmental benefit of using recycled instead of virgin paper is that it reduces the need to cut down trees in order to make more paper. Post-consumer waste PCW — this refers to paper that has reached the end consumers all of us who are using paper and then tossing it in our recycle bins and then been turned back into paper.
The difference between the recycled paper mentioned above and post-consumer waste paper is that the recycled paper may not have reached the end consumer; for example, it can include paper that was trimmed in the paper mills and then turned into paper again, so that it is recycled paper but contains no post-consumer waste.
Recyclable materials, the recycled symbol, and SFI certification — but no recycled content. The organization has identified 10 principles that guide its forest management, including protecting the rights of workers and indigenous peoples whose local communities depend upon and are impacted by the forests.
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